treelovinhippie
2/12/06 12:14:24 PM
Primarch
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hi
I've recently been getting a tonne of spam (like around 100 a day) and the majority of them are the same email, but with different email addresses.
I'm using thunderbird and have the spam filter setup so that most of the spam is being picked up. But the problem is that I don't trust these filters as there always tends to be a few important emails that leak through to the spam folder. So I've been manually checking each one (sucks).
Is there a way to somehow block the IP that this spam is coming from, so that I never get it?
Here's the info from the email (replaced my addy with me@myemail.com):
From - Sat Dec 02 12:07:28 2006
X-Account-Key: account4
X-UIDL: UID2706-1145949652
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <Burgundy'sboasters@academy24.com>
X-Original-To: me@myemail.com
Delivered-To: m5996484@spunkymail-mx3.dreamhost.com
Received: from p57AE4489.dip.t-dialin.net (p57AE4489.dip.t-dialin.net [87.174.68.137])
by spunkymail-mx3.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40218DC48
for <me@myemail.com>; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:37:02 -0800 (PST)
Received: from 62.153.210.251 (HELO porsche.academy24.com)
by myemail.com with esmtp (493E-06K03L 6.5S7)
id I656P8-4H.?AE-P8
for me@myemail.com; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:40:24 -0060
From: "OTC Financial network" <Burgundy'sboasters@academy24.com>
To: <me@myemail.com>
Subject: EQSE News
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:40:24 -0060
Message-ID: <01c7156f$c7c729e0$6c822ecf@Burgundy'sboasters>
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2905
Thread-Index: Aca6Q4@Q.3;)H?(80<-7.;'?47:WN'==
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.430 [268.15.2/560]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2
Alert! Watch this one Soar!
Equipment & Systems Engineering, Inc. (EQSE)
Sector: Environmental Engineering
Rating: VERY Bullish
Current Price: $0.062
Projected: $0.20
This is THE pick for the fourth quarter. Environmental
stocks are getting incredible exposure and taking off as
governments and companies realize they need to start
investing NOW. EQSE is involved in high tech solutions for
both the problems we face today and those of the future.
Search your favorite financial information site and become
a believer. This is HOT!
An earth shattering release is expected out of the company
any day. With all of EQSE's governmental contacts we are
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rapidly. Don't delay. It's not going to stop till we see
20 cents!
Edited by treelovinhippie: 2/12/2006 12:15:52 PM -----
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DiStOrTeD
2/12/06 12:45:33 PM
Overlord
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Nope othing you can do but live with it.
You can use expensive anti spam systems but some will stll get through -----
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aliali
2/12/06 01:46:20 PM
Hero
Immortal
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Get a new email address is all you can really do, or check with your ISP and see if they can apply a spam filter to your incoming (may cost extra).
For a new email addy try to put some non alpha-numeric characters in it, this seems to stop the word generator type spambots from generating your email address. -----
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treelovinhippie
2/12/06 02:24:21 PM
Primarch
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Damn, thought so. You'd think by this stage there would be some kind of system in place to cut down the amount of spam going around... like ISPs restricting the amount of email people can send. And if you want to send X number of emails per day you need to get a permit or something. -----
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Rybags
2/12/06 03:49:04 PM
Hero
Immortal
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There's SFA you can do so far as addresses goes - it's all spoofed, obviously - I don't think I ever got one of those junk bond GIF mails from the same "server".
See if your ISP has spam filters - I recently setup the TPG spam filter (to medium) and it gets most of them (luckily since mine have increased from about 3 to 10 a day).
I still have to go into their system though - once a day or so and just ensure that no genuine stuff is in there, then delete the lot.
As far as extensions or programs to do it locally - NFI. It should be easy enough. FFS, just something to bin any mail with an embedded .GIF would be sufficient - what sane person ever creates an email with that format picture? -----
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treelovinhippie
2/12/06 03:56:52 PM
Primarch
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I just set a filter up in thunderbird which might ease things a bit.
Whenever the email body contains "Projected:" I'm marking it as read and sending it to the junk folder.
Since I've got the junk folder only displaying unread emails so I can check them quickly and so thunderbird still has them in there so it can "learn" what is spam etc -----
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Redhatter
2/12/06 07:08:17 PM
Hero
Guru
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I get loads of those... SpamAssassin seems to be able to do little with them. Thunderbird misses them... and I end up sending them to the spam mail box.
Blocking the IP will do diddley squat -- they're using multiple hosts to send their spam. Likely, it is comprimised user PCs that are doing the dirty work. -----
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Godzilla_6969
2/12/06 09:11:24 PM
Initiate
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Gmail accounts are bloody excellent for dealing with spam, I get no (by no, I mean zero) unwanted messages in my inbox, and no important emails go into the junk folder.
The features in Outlook are really quite poor compared to some other web based email services -----
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Chazzozz!!
2/12/06 10:54:32 PM
Overlord
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Get POPFile to use as a local filter:
http://getpopfile.org/
It's the best filtering application I've come across, doesn't use a lot of system resources, and is an excellent compliment to your ISP's filtering.
One of the best things about POPFile is you can use it to classify what it thinks is spam or not, then use the filtering rules in Thunderbird to sort it into the appropriate folders. This makes scanning for false-positives much easier.
There's a tutorial on the POPFile web site that has easy instructions for integrating with T'Bird. You can even set up T'Bird so that you've got one-click access to reclassify an email.
(Oh, POPFile is free, too. :) -----
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bowiee
3/12/06 12:04:11 AM
Guru
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me i use mail washer pro works for me check it out. http://www.mailwasher.net/ -----
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Wallacey
3/12/06 12:05:28 PM
Hero
Guru
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Another vote for mailwasher here. -----
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and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks."
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sparxx
4/12/06 11:16:38 AM
Serf
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Quote by Godzilla_6969
Gmail accounts are bloody excellent for dealing with spam, I get no (by no, I mean zero) unwanted messages in my inbox, and no important emails go into the junk folder.
The features in Outlook are really quite poor compared to some other web based email services
I have to agree with this. I have a gmail account, but I also filter my home email account thru gmail's spam filters.
Not a problem -----
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smadge1
4/12/06 11:53:58 AM
Titan
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I have a public and a private email address, the public one, I leave all over the place, I never get spam, the private one, which I only give to my close friends, has recently been overwhelmed by spam, i guess someone's computer got a virus and leaked it. The spam controls on the mailbox are useless, and I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a whitelist. -----
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Not really good for anything
But they still bring a smile to your face
When you push them down a flight of stairs.
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bowiee
4/12/06 12:20:52 PM
Guru
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Quote by smadge1
I have a public and a private email address, the public one, I leave all over the place, I never get spam, the private one, which I only give to my close friends, has recently been overwhelmed by spam, i guess someone's computer got a virus and leaked it. The spam controls on the mailbox are useless, and I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a whitelist.
smadge1 don't be so lazy lol. with mail washer once you add your friends its great. it does not take long to add them as it will import address from outlook for you. then if you have a new friend to add just keep an eye out for them and add them.or add them manually.
It's worth it to be rid of the spam, besides mail washer all ready comes with some rules and picks up the spam off the bat.
Edited by bowiee: 4/12/2006 12:21:42 PM -----
XP2100@2GHZ ALBATRON Nvidia 6600GT AGP. 1.5 Gig ddr 400 ram ALBATRON KX18D PRO lite-on dvd player PIONEER DVR-108 "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
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smadge1
4/12/06 12:51:50 PM
Titan
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I don't have an internet connection at home, so i can't use mailwasher, i use my webmail access, and occasionally d/l the messages to Portable Thunderbird on my USB key. I cannot access my mail server through Portable Thunderbird at work through the proxy, so I usually have to go to a public internet access to do it.
When I get an internet connection at home, i'll probably setup Mailwasher, it's a program I've used and loved in the past. -----
Some people are like Slinkies
Not really good for anything
But they still bring a smile to your face
When you push them down a flight of stairs.
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bowiee
4/12/06 01:19:01 PM
Guru
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damm forgot about your net access problem i am sure you were telling me about it at the XNA meet. /me hugs my optus cable and looks down......i mean at you with sympathy. ;) -----
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